Just For Fun
Stable’s 3-year-old Decisive Moment and Shivananda Parbhoo’s 5-year-old Giant
Ryan are among the high-profile stakes runners on the grounds at Calder Casino
& Race Course this season, and both worked five furlongs Friday morning,
the former bound for the $500,000 Indiana Derby (G2) next Saturday at Hoosier
Park.
Decisive Moment was
timed five furlongs in 1:02 flat for trainer Juan Arias as he gets ready for
his first start since finishing second as the favorite behind Manicero in the
$75,000 Naked Greed Stakes here on Aug. 20. A Florida homebred by With
Distinction, Decisive Moment won the $75,000 El Kaiser Stakes here in late July.
Arias has
re-iterated his opinion that Decisive Moment gets better as cooler weather
approaches as he did this time last year, with career highlights including
runner-up finishes in the $1 million Delta Jackpot (G3) in November and
$500,000 Spiral Stakes (G2) at Turfway Park in late March, the latter won by
Animal Kingdom and sending both into the Kentucky Derby (G1).
Plans for Giant Ryan
are less defined as he hasn’t run since a hard-fought neck victory in the
$350,000 Smile Sprint Handicap (G2) here on Summit of Speed day, July 9,
with California shipper Irrefutable second and Kentucky invader Noble’s Promise
third. Giant Ryan was posting his fifth consecutive victory for trainer Bisnath
Parboo.
Giant Ryan was timed
five-eighths in a ‘bullet’ 1:01 2/5 Friday morning, but the move marked only
his second recorded workout since the Smile Sprint. The New York-bred son of
Freud won three straight at Aqueduct and Belmont Park early this year before
returning to Calder to win the $75,000 Ponche Handicap on June 11 by 4 ¾
lengths ahead of the Smile Sprint score.
Parboo also had
2-year-old colt Trinniberg on the track to work five-eighths in 1:01 4/5 Friday
morning. The son of Teuflesberg made a big splash last out finishing second in
the $250,000 Hopeful Stakes (G1) at Saratoga on Sept. 5, beaten three-quarters
of a length at odds of 68-to-1 after leading to deep stretch of the
seven-furlong test run over a ‘sloppy’ track.
Trinniberg, who also
races for Shivananda Parbhoo, son of the trainer, won his career debut at
Calder by 5 ¾ lengths on July 8 and tired to fifth in the $150,000 Saratoga
Special (G2) in mid-August in his only other start before the Hopeful.
Although Trinniberg
is nominated for the $100,000 Birdonthewire Stakes to be run at six furlongs
here at Calder next Saturday, he is expected to ship back to New York for a
start in either the $150,000 Nashua Stakes (G3) at six furlongs next Sunday at
Belmont or the $300,000 Champagne Stakes (G1) going a mile there on Sat., Oct.
8.